March 2016 Kukai

Kigo Theme:

DEW 

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First Place -  39 Points

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leaf dew —

this struggle

to let go

Vinay Leo R.

(3,10,10) = 39 pts

**I can feel the struggle.

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Second Place - 23  Points

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school bus stop

all the new sneakers

wet with dew

--Diane Mayr

(1,5,10) = 23 pts

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Third Place -  19 Points

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dewdrop...

what does the leaf know

of nothingness

sanjuktaa

India

(0,7,5) = 19 pts

**This makes me think of the ‘dewdrop world’.

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 17 Points

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dewdrops

all the time

in the world

Bill Kenney

(1,3,8) = 17 pts

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 15 Points

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morning dew

scent of lemongrass

beyond the garden

Casey Daniel

(1,3,6) = 15 pts

insomnia

her slippers

wetted with dew

Tom Painting

(1,3,6) = 15 pts

fading stars

the old dog licks dew

from his fur

polona

(0,4,7) = 15 pts

**A nice balance of similarity and difference in the juxtaposition.

harbour mist . . .

the morning entangled

in wharf side nets

Marion Clarke

Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland

(0,4,7) = 15 pts

**What a wonderful image! And such a mood, too! Love the sounds of the words in this one.

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 14 Points

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maternity ward

the dew-eyed father's

first hello

aom (tim)

(1,4,3) = 14 pts

forest reflection

a snail pauses

at a dewdrop

Harvey Jenkins

(1,2,7) = 14 pts

**Beautifully rendered. Such a mood created in so few words.

ancient oak --

dew in the spiderweb

takes its time

Michele L. Harvey

USA

(0,4,6) = 14 pts

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13  Points

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see how it leans

this blade of grass…

morning dew

D W Skrivseth

(1,1,8) = 13 pts

**I love the close observation and simplicity of this one.

**This poem would be better without the word "see."

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 12 Points

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every step

a practice step--

path of dew

Sondra J. Byrnes

Santa Fe

New Mexico

USA

(1,3,3) = 12 pts

blue lilac--

a dewdrop merges

with another

Carole MacRury

(1,1,7) = 12 pts

**A quality I like in haiku is resonant insignificance, as here in the merger of a couple of dewdrops. The moral of the story: keep looking.

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 10 Points

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from the sky

returned to the sky

morning dew

Simon Hanson

Queensland, Australia

(0,3,4) = 10 pts

on-coming traffic --

on the windshield

a galaxy of dew

kawazu

(0,3,4) = 10 pts

**For me this would be improved by omitting ‘on’ in L2 but it is unusual and striking.

April wedding . . .

their vows

moist with dew

Bill Pauly

(0,2,6) = 10 pts

**Lovely!

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 9 Points

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the rising sun

sets every leaf alight

morning dew

assu

(0,3,3) = 9 pts

and yet ...

her laughter dancing

barefoot on the grass

maxianne

(0,3,3) = 9 pts

**Well, Issa's genius told him to stop after "and yet," but this extension of his classic ku has verve and spirit, and I want to believe that line 2 is not just a happy accident.

dew drops

on the cusp of dawn

bird notes

Barbara Kaufmann

(0,3,3) = 9 pts

**Yes, even though the dew will be gone soon, the bird song lingers.

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 8 Points

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do fairies bathe?

a purple pitcher plant

brimming with dew

Kirsty Karkow

(0,3,2) = 8 pts

through a dewdrop

by the rosehip thorn

a red train passing

helge t.

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

leaping deer

a spray of dew

and gone

Michael McClintock

(0,1,6) = 8 pts

**What a great image of the “leaping deer.” And just as quickly is the dew gone as the deer.

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 7 Points

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setting moon

dew drops

lead us home

Jone RushMacCulloch

Portland, OR

(0,2,3) = 7 pts

spruce bog

a heavy dew

bends the spider webs

Edward

(0,1,5) = 7 pts

dewy grass

a partridge sipping

first light

kaiser kahn

(0,1,5) = 7 pts

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6  Points

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morning dew -

fading away the summer

on her kimono

Ana Drobot

(Bucharest, Romania)

(1,1,1) = 6 pts

glittering dew

in a spider's web --

morning sunrays

~ Patrick Wafula

(Kenya)

(1,1,1) = 6 pts

poetry

the morning dew

of language

Oddbjørn Aardalen

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

first dew

our relationship

still in the dark

Bernard Gieske USA

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

after the prom

sharing the chaise longue

with dew

Doris

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

taking with it

all of yesterday

morning dew

Sreelatha Nair

India

(0,0,6) = 6 pts

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 5 Points

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dewdrops

on a lemon blossom

what might be

Bruce H. Feingold

Berkeley, CA

(0,2,1) = 5 pts

**The ephemeral nature of dewdrops lends a subtle poignancy to that "might" in line 3.

new lovers

after the meteor shower

morning dew

Alan S. Bridges

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

**How sensual!!!

Passiontide --

the herding dog

shakes off dew

(Ramona)

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

dew

new shine

of the snail trail

Boris Nazansky

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

morning dew -

after breakfast

the funeral

Israel López Balan

Mexico city

(0,0,5) = 5 pts

dewdrops at dawn ---

the maypole is ready

for its day

James Dobson,

Prudhoe, UK.

(0,0,5) = 5 pts

spider's web

the beads of dew

full of gravity

Rafał Zabratyński

(0,0,5) = 5 pts

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 4 Points

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morning dew

congealing on my mirror

a forgotten name

Alegria Imperial

(1,0,1) = 4 pts

orphanage room

on the glass window

a sparkling dew

Ken Sawitri

(Jakarta, Indonesia)

(0,2,0) = 4 pts

Dawn sunshine...

drops of dew quiver

upon a daisy

Keith A. SIMMONDS

Rodez, FRANCE

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

**I can feel that quiver!

all night diner

a streetwalker comes in

from the dew

LeRoy Gorman

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

morning dew

my grass is richer

with silver

Celestine Nudanu

Ghana

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

piñon pine seedlings

shimmering with morning dew

her faith wavers

Cyndi Lloyd

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

morning dew

all those faces

starting back at me

Paresh

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

morning shift –

pearls of dewdrops

on a spiderweb

Jayashree Maniyil

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

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 3 Points

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shining like pearls

on all the grass blades

dew drops....

purush

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

at his headstone

forget-me-nots washed in dew...

silent tears

Natalia Kuznetsova,

Russia

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

wrinkles

in every dew drop -

scything

Lavana kray

Romania

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

**Totally unexpected!

dew on pine ...

scent of the trail

to the lake

jill

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

autumn morning --

a gold nugget in each

blade of grass

Kumarendra Mallick

Hyderabad India

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

spring morning...

in grandma's garden

snails surfing dew

S.E. Buffington

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

dew

on the daffodil

sparkling

Barbara Campitelli

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

dewdrops on the field -

the ones who departed

unsung,unknown

Arvinder Kaur

Chandigarh,India

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

water restrictions

he washes his car

with morning dew

Bill Hudson

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

dewy web

cherry blossoms

in every drop

Ramesh Anand,

Bengaluru, India.

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

**And which cherry blossoms do we prefer – these, or the conventional ones growing on trees and in too many haiku?

**Exquisitely beautiful! How wonderful that something different was presented with this web.

one last kiss—

dewdrop at the leaftip

doddering

Shrikaanth

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

**I love the lightness in this one. I picture the last kiss as a little awkward. Very touching.

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 2 Points

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dew drops on a spider's web

sparkling in the morning sun

just like diamonds

Tom Conally

Gibsonville, NC

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

dew

a cup of tea before

the funeral

oga

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

dawn

night no more

tears of dew

Vishnu P Kapoor

Chennai, India

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

morning silence

breaking with the clamour

of falling dew...

Tuvshinzaya Nergui

Tsetserleg, Mongolia

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

sudden chill --

stepping on the dewy

star grass

~ andrew odinga

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

dew on the grass

wets my trouser's hem --

walk at sunrise

~ Samuel Musili

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

on a dew-drop

seeing the blue sky –

the sun rises

Miorita Alba

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

dew kissed rose-

from petal to petal

autumn sunrise

- Kashinath Karmakar

India

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

gliding dew . . .

the routes

that tear takes

Ajaya Mahala

Pune, India

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

our two bicycles

lie in the spring grass

filled with dew

Tomislav

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

morning sun

on the heavy dew-

my tent steamy

Ruth Powell

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

skinny dew worms

measuring the sidewalk

cool April rain

Ignatius Fay

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

dreams

evaporate like

morning dew

Jens-Christian Kjær

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

what if you become

a sea and swallow me...

iris dew drop

Rita Odeh

Haifa

Israel

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

passed away -

her early morning tears

on the clinic lawn

Eleonore Nickolay

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

dew ephemeral as the ashes in her urn

Donna Bauerly

Dubuque, IA

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

humid morning --

dew on a machete

forgotten outside

~ Michael Cosmas

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

cold morning --

a car windscreen

covered in dew

~ Arnold Echenje

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

old, bare feet in dewy grass

their first spring

springs to mind

Jon Espen Vassbotn

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

at dawn

dew on the hawthorne

tips a blossom

Beth Powell

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

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 1 Point

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murder mystery?

dew drops on that blade of grass

and a dragonfly

Daniela Bullas

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

iced dew drops

morning sun

brilliant

Juhani Tikkanen

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

so much dew--

the paperboy's socks

soaked to the toes

DeVar

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

morning sunshine --

our lawn grass covered

in glittering dew

~ Anne Njeri

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

first light ... he shakes

dew from the rolled newspaper

onto violets

Anonymous

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

humid midnight --

my white shirt falls

on dewy grass

~ Salphine Akose

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

dew dropping

from a banana frond --

morning cold

~ Isaac Okumu

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

silently lamenting

the passing of nightly silence…

dewdrops

Bill Gottlieb

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

**Just beautiful! I’m right there in the moment, too.

stale bread on the lawn

one magpie landing heavily

scatters dew

Sheila K Barksdale

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

foggy dew ―

in the end

drink

did kill him

Anonymous

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

dripping from broad leaves

dew trails across

her child's headstone

Bre

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

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No Points This Time, Sorry.

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in the morning dew

seagulls cacoophony

when grandpa lands a cod

Lindusen

Norway

Glistening with dew

a spider's web between twigs

pretty diamond choker

Aziza Hena

Bangladesh

early gray dew ~

Gramp grumbles

to himself

Anonymous

foggy morning

over dew-drenched lawns

a blue wren skips

Barbara A. Taylor

Mountain Top, NSW

Australia

we wait up...

dew condenses

on the grass

--Barbara Snow

The finch sang -

morning dews kissed

her blushing face.

Iffat Jahan Suchona

leaves shiver

with every dew drop

soon it will be spring

Judi Honiker

Clearwater, FL

dewdrops reflect

the sun's first rays

rise and shine

Giselle Maya

France

doe and fawn framed by

mist rising from morning dew

arouse wonderment

Poseytoon

morning dew

the coolness of a snail's song

twinkles

Svend A. Doggfall

 crystal gazing...

first rays reveal a rainbow

in the dew drop

Vandana Parashar

Ambala Cantt

India

jewels in the sun,

dew-drops on a web…

beautiful trap

John Hubbard

Morning woodland stroll

dawn-light shining like gemstones

in the morning dew.

Robert C. Howard

Belleville IL

dew drops reflecting

a grasshopper’s smiling face-

nice morning mirror

Munia Khan

Dhaka, Bangladesh

rising sun --

water droplets sparkle

on a spider's web

~ yamame (Kenya)

on a cool morning

snowballs to my face –

mountain dew

Anonymous

home at midnight --

every blade of grass

sparkling with dew

~ Isabelle Prondzynski

(Ireland)

the dew

on the apple I gave her

is gone by lunchtime

Paul Hodder

droplets of dew

wet my black shoes--

morning walk

~ sarah akoth

first sun ray

shines on dew drop -

mother's nose pin

Sudebi Singha

Kolkata, India

hibiscus blossoms

sparkling with dew --

rising sun

~ mercy kanyiva

sunrise --

the green riverbank grass

glitters with dew

~ dennis shakava

a spiderweb

shivers off dewdrops—

rainbow dawn

Marietta McGregor,

Australia

early morning dewdrops

appear then disappear

as he lay dying

Stevie Strang

dew's

coloured beads

rolling on the pansies

John McDonald

Edinburgh Scotland

 cold night --

a forgotten basin

dripping dew

~ Hannah Kiruki

morning dew

he gets to work with his eyes

closed

Dorota Ocińska

Poland, Łodź

drop by drop

dew falls from our roof --

cold night

~ Mercy Mukosia

narrow path --

dew on the grass

wets my shoes

~ Margaret Wangui

a handful of dew

maiden bathes her face for luck

first morning of May

Deirdre Godwin

dewdrops sliding

down a windowpane --

morning cold

~ Eric Kariuki

moving day

heavy dew drops

boxes damp

Yukiko Yamada

banana fronds

dropping dew like tears --

sunrise garden

~ Eren Owuor

 from each leaf bud

a single dewdrop

dangles

Jane DeJonghe

dew flying low

just see the swans

eyes

jean south

fragrant dawn

newly planted garden

dew harvest

Anonymous

 thin leaves of grass

nodding in the night

watering the soil

Starbear

a hard day’s night-

the Heiligenschein watching

over the beggar

Cristian Mocanu

late morning -

dew falls

from the blossom

-Priscilla Cook

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General Comments:

**I am drunk on dew!

**a good crop of dew haiku, i had to leave out a few fine poems

**I noticed an association between dew and time in several poems….Great poems, congratulations to all the poets!

**I could easily have picked a lot more, these were so very vivid. Congratulations to all the haijin.

 **I find it a bit tricky to write against the season but I appreciate the nod to the poets in the southern hemisphere.

Free Format Theme:

DRIFTWOOD

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First Place -  33 Points

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alone

at day's end

driftwood

Sondra J. Byrnes

Santa Fe

New Mexico

USA

(3,3,18) = 33 pts

**Certainly a no-frills ku, but that hint of ambiguity around who or what is alone makes it.

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Second Place -  25 Points

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refugees

on foreign shores

winter driftwood

Bruce H. Feingold

Berkeley, CA

(1,5,12) = 25 pts

**Wow! a great one!

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Third Place -  23 Points

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driftwood

my thoughts ebbing away

tide by tide

Ken Sawitri

(Jakarta, Indonesia)

(0,8,7) = 23 pts

**Yes, I love when certain thoughts ebb away. So well said.

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19 Points

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driftwood –

scent of a memory

from a distant forest

Andrei C. Szava

(2,3,7) = 19 pts

**Absolutely love this!

alone on a beach

looking for who I once was

driftwood

Barbara Kaufmann

(1,4,8) = 19 pts

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17 Points

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driftwood-

an untold story

from shore to shore

- Kashinath Karmakar

India

(1,5,4) = 17 pts

driftwood

my grandchild shows me

a dragon

Bill Kenney

(0,3,11) = 17 pts

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15 Points

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half buried driftwood ~

I too am such a long way

from home

Angèle Lux

(1,3,6) = 15 pts

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14 Points

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charred driftwood

stories around the fire

from a distant shore

Simon Hanson

(0,4,6) = 14 pts

**I love where this ku takes me.

dance of waves -

the sheer loneliness

of driftwood

Arvinder Kaur

Chandigarh,India

(0,4,6) = 14 pts

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12 Points

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grandma's house

all the driftwood

that's come to rest

aom (tim)

(0,2,8) = 12 pts

**This is, I think, a bit too open to be completely successful, but the upside of that is its suggestiveness; one would like to meet grandma.

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11 Points

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the charred end of driftwood autumn deepens

polona

(0,2,7) = 11 pts

**Simply beautiful!

goose barnacles

clinging to driftwood…

my restless life

Marietta McGregor,

Australia

(0,2,7) = 11 pts

**The hint in the image that my life is parasitical as well as restless gives this some psychological interest.

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10 Points

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honeymoon...

the driftwood fire

all but ash

Michele L. Harvey

USA

(1,2,3) = 10 pts

sea-tossed

for a while the moon nestled

in the driftwood's curve

Anonymous

(0,4,2) = 10 pts

after the storm...

weary birds resting

upon driftwood

Keith A. SIMMONDS

Rodez, FRANCE

(0,2,6) = 10 pts

**So well observed and written with sympathy.

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9 Points

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long night-

a driftwood tortured

by the wind

Rita Odeh

Haifa

Israel

(1,1,4) = 9 pts

nursery window

driftwood rocking

in the waves

kawazu

(0,2,5) = 9 pts

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8 Points

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greyed by the sun

broken by the tide . . .

driftwood

Beverley George

(2,1,0) = 8 pts

hot night -

using driftwood

as a doorstop

Miorita Alba

(1,0,5) = 8 pts

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7 Points

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after the storm--

a driftwood mobile

twists in silence

Carole MacRury

(1,1,2) = 7 pts

**What a unique image - "driftwood mobile." The devastation and sense of loss is so palpable in this haiku. Wonderfully rendered!

intricately carved

on a driftwood cross

the vagabond's name

Jon Espen Vassbotn

(1,0,4) = 7 pts

a white feather

caught on driftwood

planting moon

Giselle Maya

France

(0,2,3) = 7 pts

his prodigal son

still lost on the road...

driftwood

Natalia Kuznetsova

(0,2,3) = 7 pts

lake at dawn

a floating birch slides

under the fog

--Diane Mayr

(0,1,5) = 7 pts

**I like the specificity of "birch" and that surprising but authentic last line.

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6 Points

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mother's lost ring

all eyes focused between

shells and driftwood

Barbara A. Taylor

Mountain Top, NSW

Australia

(0,3,0) = 6 pts

wind and tide

a driftwood horse

lost in beach grass

Michael McClintock

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

after the divorce

all down river

driftwood

Bernard Gieske USA

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

driftwood

talk of phantom ships

around the fire

Beth Powell

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

back from vacation

in her laundry bag

driftwood & witch stones

(Ramona)

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

collecting driftwood . . .

a blind man remembers

summer love

Marion Clarke

Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

the eye

the knot left behind

driftwood

Alan S. Bridges

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

**What a beautiful observation!

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5 Points

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driftwood sculpture

a dragonfly skimming

until the trout

Ignatius Fay

(1,1,0) = 5 pts

**Does not catch a single moment, but splendidly pushes the boundary.

driftwood-

colours of the sea and sand

in her eyes

Ruth Powell

(1,0,2) = 5 pts

Night on shore

worms' safe nap inside a

lone driftwood

Aziza Hena

Bangladesh

(0,2,1) = 5 pts

nude beach—

faces in the driftwood

staring me down

Bill Pauly

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

ebb tide--

wedged between secrets

a driftwood

Alegria Imperial

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

driftwood--

remembers the curve

of the waves that carried it

Jill

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

**The first word of the second line and the last three words of the last line could well be dispensed with.

old driftwood

Dad's favorite

walking cane

charlie smith

raleigh, nc

(0,0,5) = 5 pts

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4 Points

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inuksuk shadows

around a driftwood fire

Northern lights

Garry Eaton

(1,0,1) = 4 pts

**What wonderful light play in this ku. I had to look up inuksuk. Beautiful mood in this haiku!

**I especially liked [the] inuksuk image.

our children's photos

tucked

in the driftwood mirror

Allison Millcock

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

hands of driftwood

shaking

the waves

jean south

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

strutting

past driftwood

the proud raven

Bill Gottlieb

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

driftwood

by the mountain lake

setting aside our differences

Cyndi Lloyd

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

riding the ebb

all the years

we believed in love

Paresh

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

silted pond --

perched on the twig

a dragonfly

Kumarendra Mallick

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

**What a beautiful contrast – the murky pond with the clearness of dragonfly wings. Very enlightening.

canoeing

down the river

driftwood

Juhani Tikkanen

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

this bench

made from driftwood

far from home

Paul Hodder

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

driftwood search --

the curve of the bay

at dawn

James Dobson,

Prudhoe, UK.

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

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3 Points

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tsunami driftwood -

sun tan and sea salt hold on

tightly to his skin

Daniela Bullas

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

driftwood

the journey of weathered faces

running aground

Devin Harrison

Vancouver Island - Canada

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

**Very interesting haiku. I picture people reaching the ends of their journeys.

the driftwood, the stars,

the birds of passage, who

navigates after who

Oddbjørn Aardalen

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

driftwood -

a rusty fish hook pricks

my barefoot

Lavana kray

Romania

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

carved

on the piece of driftwood

a love heart

Svend A. Doggfall

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

driftwood altar

she leaves a note

the waves respond

Jone Rush MacCulloch

Portland, Oregon

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

rendezvous

driftwood enough

for a bonfire

Tom Painting

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

his life

carried from wave to wave

driftwood

Dorota Ocińska

Poland, Łódź

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

hands down

and one leg up -

a driftwood's beach yoga

Ajaya Mahala

Pune, India

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

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2 Points

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a scatter of shapes

woodcarver’s morning

scavenger hunt

Harvey Jenkins

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

out to sea, bobbing

next to a piece of driftwood

his ashes

Stevie Strang

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

aimless meander

sharing time with gulls and sea

and wave-polished wood

Deirdre Godwin

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

end of summer bonfire -

tossing her last piece of driftwood

into the flames

-Priscilla Cook

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

smooth sea

the rough texture

of dry driftwood

Rafał Zabratyński

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

colored flames dance

from driftwood fires

-- spring break

Bre

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

Moonticklesong

two hearts of driftwood

crushing in the sea

Lindusen

Norway

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

**I love the phrase “moonticklesong” – how refreshing! The emotion this ku creates is so palpable. Really beautiful!

critic's review:

the abandoned driftwood

near the parking lot

--Barbara Snow

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

name etched

on a piece of driftwood

aroma of tea

Casey Daniel

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

giving her comfort

the therapist's kind words...

driftwood

Ana Drobot

(Bucharest, Romania)

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

An old man’s hands

weathered like fallen branches

drifting through time.

Robert C. Howard

Belleville IL

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

weathered wood,,,

this burden

made lighter

D W Skrivseth

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

driftwood campfire

the shapeshifting

in girlfriend’s story

Ramesh Anand

Bengaluru, India

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

driftwood moving abroad my home nowhere

Shrikaanth

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

driftwood these days-

fifty years ago

the mines on the beach

dsnake1

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

driftwood smoke

his joke

about rape

Anonymous

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

**Maybe a bit obvious in its exploitation of a hot button issue, but it does pack a punch.

the shore of Maine

gathering driftwood

in the winter

Barbara Campitelli

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

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1 Point

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two logs on the river

mom and dad

at a distance

hawktalk

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

Summer noon -

the driftwood came ashore

with a chain locket.

Iffat Jahan Suchona

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

all my expectations

returned dishonoured

drift woods at my doorstep

purush

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

rockbound shore

a sculptor collects driftwood

for his studio

Kirsty Karkow

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

woman's torso

a pebble marks its navel

shape of the driftwood

Vishnu P Kapoor

Chennai, India

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

cremated remains

go down river

with the driftwood

Donna Bauerly

Dubuque, IA

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

driftwoods remain

the bridge overhead

another spring comes

Yukiko Yamada

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

sea-washed huts

a bald eagle perched

on a driftwood

Jayashree Maniyil

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

sand dollar rich...

kids combing driftwood

with sea mist hair

S.E.Buffington

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

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No Points This Time, Sorry.

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discarded plastic

drifting on ocean currents

not unlike driftwood

Tom Conally

Gibsonville, NC

tangled driftwood

tossed upon the shore

time passages

Judi Honiker

Clearwater, FL

driftwood grounded

on a pliant pink plain

his vasty palm

assu

old tree

pulled up and abused

wrecked driftwood

Jens-Christian Kjær

life swirls and bobs as

driftwood flounders in the sea

to oblivion

poseytoon

river bend

flash floods move tangled driftwood

closer to the sea

Edward

 ugly ducklings?

caught in the log boom

some driftwood

maxianne

how wayward

waves take the driftwood...

juvenile offender

Vandana Parashar

Ambala Cantt

India

washed ashore

cut lengths of old growth

saddens my heart

Bill Hudson

between blue waves

starfish’s sanctuary

a forlorn driftwood

Munia Khan

Dhaka, Bangladesh

driftwood fishwheel

the salmon too

travel

Doris

an old man

gazes at the driftwood

and muses...

Tuvshinzaya Nergui

Tsetserleg, Mongolia

her son’s fish

made of driftwood -

art therapy

Eleonore Nickolay

France/Germany

splitting driftwood the two divorced

oga

tsunami ends -

lovebirds on driftwood

aimless

Sudebi Singha

Kolkata, India

windswept waves

a driftwood shelter

on the beach

DeVar

Drifting—now—toward—shore—

Adventure-lined—brittle—gray—

Hands catch—raise me up—

James Thoune

Bowling Green, KY USA

hundred-year flood

driftwood is taken

to a bus stop & left

LeRoy Gorman

where the sea

rubbed...

driftwood sculpture

John McDonald

Edinburgh Scotland

 this Floating World

driftwood

follows with the current

Raffael de Gruttola

Natick, MA USA

a row of waves . . .

the gleam of driftwood

among the debris

Tomislav

Whitney's "LOVE YOU-OO"

I hurl driftwood back in

"...will always..."

Sheila K Barksdale

Remembrance Day

an old woman sighs close to

pieces of driftwood

kaiser kahn

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General Comments:

**Drifting along.....

 **again, pleasantly surprised by the number of quality entries

 **I noticed lost of associations between driftwood and deeply emotional states… Very interesting haiku!

**Some fascinating images!